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Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol.…Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol.…
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol. 2, part 1] with an universal history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitive age to these latter times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland. Newly revised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time again published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the help of Christ our Lord) John Fox, which desireth thee good reader to help him with thy prayer.Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 2, part 1] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.
London: printed by John Daye, 1583London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1583
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First, as is requisite, for testimony & witness of truth ⟨p. 812⟩falsely slandered, of innocency wrongfully condemned, & of the party cruelly oppressed.
First, as is requisite, for testimony & witnesse of truth ⟨p. 812⟩falsely slaundered, of innocency wrongfully condemned, & of the party cruelly oppressed.
The second cause moveth me, for sir Thomas Moors Dialogues, wherein he dallieth out the matter, thinking to jest poor simple truth out of countenance.
The second cause moueth me, for sir Thomas Moores Dialogues, wherin he dallieth out the matter, thinking to iest poore simple truth out of countenaunce.
The third cause which constraineth me, be the Dialogues of Alanus Copus, which two, the one in English, the other in Latin, railing and barking against Rich. Hun do doublewise charge him, both to be an heretic, and also a desperate homicide of himself: Which as it is false in the one, so is it to be found as untrue in the other, if simple truth, which hath few friends, and many times cometh in crafty handling, might freely come in indifferent hearing. Wherefore as I have hitherto described the order and manner of his handling with the circumstances thereof,1 in plain and naked narration of story, simply laid out before all mens faces: so something here to intermit, in the defence as well of his oppressed cause, as also in discharge of my self, I will now compendiously answer to both these foresaid adversaries, stopping as it were, with one bush two gaps, and the mouths also, if I can, of them both together.